Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From cur Regular Correspondent.
wAsuINaToN. MAY, 90, 1887.

WASHINGTON. MAY, 23, 1887.
The soldier boys are all here. and
Washington is full OF martial music
and beat OF drums, The national dfiii
opened this morning, but the contests
will not begin until tomorrow. o.
day was devoted to some fornlaiitleS
such us receiving the troops, naming
the camp, and this afternoon there was
a dress parade by all the companies.
For the past few days large crowds OF
people have congregated at the railway
stations to see and welcome the soldiers
as they arrived. The first to make
their appearance were the Louisiana
Rifles, of New Orleans, who marched
quietly up Pennsylvania avenue TO
Wizards hotel and afterwards to camp
which they entered as silently as spies.
The Vicksburg Southrons followed
them making quite noise with their
silver cornets, and the Louisiana men
received their Mississippi neighbors
with hearty cheer Which was duly
recirrocated.
The city of tents around the base OF
the Washington monument is quite
picturesque, and there is also ladies
camp just north of the parade grounds.
Large parties of ladies accompanied
some of the military organizations
here and some Of them preferred to go
| into camp to stopping at the hotels and
boarding houses. Some preferred it
for the novelty of the experience and
| others because of the economic features
of camp life.
Quite a seenation occurred when 1t
was reported that there would be no
liquor sold in camp because OF an order
issued by the president to revoke the
privilege. 1t seems that IL committee OF
ladies, appointed for the purpose by the
w. c. II. U. called upon the president
and presented him a,protest against the
sale of Intoxicating liquors on the drill
grounds, it being government prop
erty, and asked his interference. The
ladies said the president received them
most courteously, expressed his disap-
proval of the license to sell liquors on
the drill ground, and gave them much
encouragement to believe it would not
be done. The ladies also called on Col.
Wilson, commissioner of public build
ings and GROUNDS, and other gentlemen
; having authority.
The bar-room privilege Of the ground
had been sold by the drill committee
for 81 800, but about noon on last Fri
day, the man who had bought the
privilege of opening the bar under the
grand stand, was notified that the or
der granting him this privilege was re-
yoked, and he at once ceased his pre-
! parations.
: Later it was stated that this action
of the drill committee was in no way
due to the president or to the efforts OF
4 the ladies OF the w. G. L. IT,, that be.
i fore the ladies had waited on the presi.
dent, the drill committee had passed
their resolution revoking the sale OF
intoxicating liquors on the drill ground
Prob ably the real secret of the com
S mittees action was that it received
n through the commissioner of public
g grounds a polite intimation that i
t would be very gratifying to the wa
a department, to which the drill grount
belongs ii Intoxicating liquors were eX
d cluded. The committee, already unde
It great obligations to the war depart
N ment, could not afford to ignore a hin
a. OF that kind, and they promptly mad
D. the order revoking the bar privilege
So. at the refreshment counter unde
IN the grand stand, only temperanced drink
" will be sold this week.
ID The president, who has been woriin
$. very hard and steadily now for som
H. time, has decided to take a rest. III
will go soon, accompanied by his vii
- and her mother, Colonel and Mrs LIZ
y mont, to Saranac Lake, n. Y. for abou
: ten days fishing. Last season he dt
:. layed his trip to the mountains until
was almost 500 late for this sport. Ii
expects to get there before the crow
Of Adirondack visitors assemble, wit
d the view OF securing a good rest. 1t
Vs. probable that this will be his only OF
NC portunity to be away from Washin!
is ton for any length of time. EXIT
w session talk is again revived, an
7i' should he deem it necessary to call a
ed extra session of congress, as many me
,ss of prominence think he will, he woul
in probably be deprived of a later summ'
ire vacation.
he An extra session is urged chiefly /
nd the advocates of tariff reduction, WI
ge think that the country demands reli
To- from taxation and the release Of
good deal of the money that is therel
of locked up in the treasury. From
he partisan standpoint, the democrat
he politicians would, of course, prefer
lis avoid an extra session. 1t would i
he volve additional expense for whi'
lat the dominant party is always held i
So sponsible.
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